{"id":27466,"date":"2018-01-08T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=27466"},"modified":"2018-01-08T09:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:33:26","slug":"looking-for-more-image-editing-power-than-photos-can-provide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/looking-for-more-image-editing-power-than-photos-can-provide\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for More Image Editing Power than Photos Can Provide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Apple significantly enhanced the editing capabilities of Photos, adding tools for adjusting specific colors, fine-tuning color and contrast via curves, and even focusing an image with vignetting. But it still lacks many features found in other image editors, including applying a filter to an arbitrary portion of an image and adding text to an image. Happily, the latest version of Photos brings back a feature from iPhoto that lets you edit any image with any editor on your Mac. Just Control- or right-click a photo and choose Edit With &gt; <i>YourFavoriteImageEditor<\/i>, and the photo opens in that app. Make your changes, and when you save, those changes are reflected in the version in Photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor.jpg 1034w\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"311\" data-attachment-id=\"5604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/looking-for-more-image-editing-power-than-photos-can-provide\/photos-choose-editor\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1034,784\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Photos-choose-editor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor-300x227.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 410px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 410\/311;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Apple significantly enhanced the editing capabilities of Photos, adding tools for adjusting specific colors, fine-tuning color and contrast via curves, and even focusing an image with vignetting. But it still lacks many features found in other image editors, including applying a filter to an arbitrary portion of an image and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[157,193,39,263,336,5,86,70,60,196,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-pros","category-apros-archive","category-blog","category-high-sierra","category-image-editing","category-mac","category-macos","category-photos","category-productivity","category-restricted-content","category-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Photos-choose-editor.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-790","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27111,"url":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/whats-new-in-macos-10-13-high-sierra-and-its-main-apps\/","url_meta":{"origin":27466,"position":0},"title":"What\u2019s New in macOS 10.13 High Sierra and Its Main Apps","author":"computeradv","date":"September 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Although Apple\u2019s eye-catching Desktop image of the High Sierra mountains makes it easy to confirm that your Mac is running High Sierra, the most noteworthy new features are invisible! 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